Act Now: IRS imposes new deadline to get stimulus check faster

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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRProud) — There’s still time to submit your bank account information in order to get your $1,200 stimulus payment faster, but that window is quickly closing. The Internal Revenue Service announced Friday that people have a deadline of 11 a.m CT on Wednesday, May 13 to submit direct deposit information.

The Treasury Department has sent nearly 130 million payments totaling $218 billion thus far, however about 20 million people are still waiting to receive the funds. Mailing out payments is a long process, considering the Treasury can only print a limited number of checks each week.

“We want people to visit Get My Payment before the noon Wednesday deadline so they can provide their direct deposit information,” IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a statement. “Time is running out for a chance to get these payments several weeks earlier through direct deposit.”